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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!camelot!darknite
  2. From: darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: who should teach calculus?
  5. Message-ID: <darknite.721546942@camelot>
  6. Date: 12 Nov 92 05:42:22 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: camelot.darknite.721546942
  8. References: <1992Nov10.223300.19016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  9. Sender: news@bradley.bradley.edu
  10. Organization: Bradley University
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  13.  
  14. Todd E. Peterson writes:
  15.  
  16. >I am interested in hearing net.opinions on the following:
  17.  
  18. >Is it a good or bad practice to use non-mathematicians to
  19. >teach mathematics courses?  In particular, what about the
  20. >use of engineering faculty to teach engineering calculus
  21. >courses, and other applied mathematics courses?
  22.  
  23. I was taught differential equations, various bits of transform
  24. theory and applications (LaPlace, Fourier, Z, discrete Fourier),
  25. and probability theory by engineers, and had no problems with
  26. them.
  27.  
  28. Then again, I shudder at calling an engineer a
  29. 'non-mathematician.'  As an electrical engineering undergrad, a
  30. very _large_ part of my working knowledge base is mathematics.
  31.  
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  33. John S. Novak, III        darknite@camelot.bradley.edu
  34.